| WORD | EXCEL | PUBLISHER | ACCESS | POWERPOINT |

| DREAMWEAVER | FIREWORKS | FLASH |

| PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS |

Word – Beginner

Make a 5 page rhyming poem booklet with a cover. Each page must have at least 8 lines of poetry.

Write about things that you like to do with your family.

Write about what you like to do in New York City.

What you want to do at the end of the year write about.

Write about your favorite country.

Make a 5 page non-rhyming poem booklet with a cover. Each page must have at least 8 lines of poetry. http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.html

Write a funny short story (300 words +).

Design a fund raising letter.

Write a letter to a legislator to have something improved in our State.

Write a letter requesting someone to volunteer to do something to help our community.

Write a thank you note to a parent, teacher or relative

Write a science fiction story (300 words +).

Design a fax sheet.

Word – Intermediate

Write an historical essay (300 words +) with bibliography. It may be done on anyplace, anytime, and anyone in history.

Write a sports essay (300 words +) with bibliography. It may be done on anyplace, anytime, anyone in history.

Write an historical story based on any time period of history.

Make a news article about this school (300 words +). You must have it in columns.

Make a list using different types of tabs and leaders.

Word – Advanced

Make a letter that can be sent to 10 friends using mail merge. Use this site for help - http://www.halifax.k12.va.us/training/merge/mailmerge.htm

Make labels using mail merge. Use this site for help - http://www.functionx.com/mailmerge/labels.htm

Publisher – Beginner

Make a family newsletter (300 words +) on 2 pages. You may bring in photos that can be scanned in or they may be on a CD.

Design an invitation to a party.

Design an agenda cover.

Design a lawn mowing, snow shoveling, or baby sitting brochure

Design a holiday party flyer.

Design a sports flyer telling when there will be sign ups for a sport.

Design a travel brochure.

Design a back to school brochure.

Publisher - Intermediate

Write a newsletter that includes a short biography on 3 different people of 3 different races in any one area of study such as: inventing, athletics, art, music, and science. It must have a bibliography.

Make a newsletter using drop caps and other extras. Use this site for help - http://www.learnthat.com/courses/computer/publisher2003/pub21.asp

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Publisher - More Advanced

Make a brochure using a master page.

Excel - Beginner

Make a word problem math test with separate answer sheet for grades 4-6.

Make a spreadsheet with a chart on any area of biology.

Make an expense account

Design an invoice.

Design a budget for a trip.

Design an inventory check list for your house.

Design a grocery shopping check off list.

Design a CD or DVD list with 3 or more columns of information.

Design a purchase order.

Design a schedule.

Make a chart on the temperatures of our planets.

Make a chart on a survey that you make up. Take the survey, and use the data for your chart.

Excel – Intermediate

Design a invoice for a company.

Setup a family budget and remember everything that is needed including things like food, clothing, rent or mortgage, gas, car payments, heat, insurance, toys, etc.

Setup a dream vacation spreadsheet. Show costs for everything, and state where you got your prices.

Excel – Advanced

Make a timeline on American history using Excel. Use this web site as a tutorial for making it.

 (http://www.microsoft.com/education/CreateTimeline.mspx)

Make a spreadsheet using these functions – max, min, count, count, and if using this web site for help. http://usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/index.html

Make a worksheet with these functions countif and if using this web site for help. http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/class/formulas.htm

Make an Excel spreadsheet using the - if function – use this web site for help. http://www.officeclues.com/articles/getArticle2.php?articleCode=4e7f2f03ae93060563c2d74b745b9f2a#

Make a drop down list in Excel using this web site for help http://www.officeclues.com/articles/getArticle2.php?articleCode=c539b94bb5cf52fd57aa460df0ab9a6e#

Make an Excel worksheet having absolute cells using this web site for help. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/excel_percent.htm

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PowerPoint – Beginner

Make a presentation on the history of Mine Hill.

Make a presentation of a biography on a famous pharaoh of Egypt.

Make a presentation of a biography on a famous emperor of the Roman Empire.

Design a vacation slide show about a vacation you have taken.

Make a presentation about firefighters, rescue workers or military forces.

Make a slide show about a museum.

Make a presentation about your favorite book.

Make a presentation on a sport.

Make a science presentation on any classification of plants.

Make a presentation on a movie or musical group.

Make a presentation on a type of music.

PowerPoint – Intermediate

Make a presentation with sound.

Dreamweaver - Beginner

Make a one page web site on an historical figure.

Make a web page on a famous writer.

Make a one page web site on a sport or sports figure.

Dreamweaver – Intermediate

Make a three page or more web site on an historical figure with rollovers.

Make a three page or more web site on a scientific fact with swap image effects.

Dreamweaver – Advanced

Make a web page using only html code. Use these sites for help - http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

http://www.pagetutor.com/html_tutor/lesson01.html

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Fireworks - Beginner

Make a magazine cover that includes the title, date, main article and artwork.

Make an advertisement. You must have a photo of the item that you enhance, a slogan, product name and company name.

Design a business card.

Design an award certificate.

Design a flyer for a lost dog or cat.

Design greeting card for a holiday.

Design a calendar.

Design a postcard.

Design a garage sale sign.

Fireworks – Intermediate

Make your name look dramatic. Use these sites for help - http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Photo-inside-of-text/14383

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Photo-with-torn-edge/14172

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Sleek-text/14173

Fireworks – Advanced

Make an animation using Fireworks. Use these sites for help - http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Animated-gifs-in-fireworks/14068

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Motion-Trail-effect-in-fireworks/14070

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Twist-and-Fade-Image/7452

Photoshop Elements - Beginner

Make an advertisement. You must have a photo of the item that you enhance, a slogan, product name and company name.

Design stationary for a business.

Design packaging.

Show the different stages of mitosis in a cell.

Make a drawing showing the different layer of the earth.

Photoshop - Intermediate

Make a gif animation on how a plant grows.

Draw a portrait of your head.

Make an item look real and 3 dimensional.

Take a photo and change the time of day in the way it looks.

Design a Social Studies book cover.

Photoshop Elements – More Advanced

Make an abstract painting look for a DVD cover. Must have fancy text, photo images, lists and more.

Access - Beginner

Make a database on cards (sports, magical, etc.), DVDs or CDs.

Design a database of recipes.

Access – Intermediate

Make up a set of statistics for a sport, and a query on those statistics.

Show the science of mixing colors using test tubes.

Flash - Beginner

Make an animation on the stages of a butterfly.

Make an animation on how levers work.

Show a supernova in action.

Show sound waves moving in the air.

Flash – Intermediate

Have a fish swimming in a fish tank with the fins moving.

A player scoring a goal and the goal keeper diving to block it. You may not use stick figures.

Make a bird flying with the wings moving. Use this site for help - http://www.echoecho.com/flashtweenings01.htm

Make something move around the screen using a path. Use this site for help - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/tweening-motion-along-path

Flash - More Advanced

Animate a shine on something. Use this site for help - http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/239/en/

Add sound and simple sound controls. Use this site for help - http://www.biorust.com/tutorials/detail/195/en/

Pause animation. Use this site for help using script in Flash - http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/pause.htm

Make random movement in your animation. Use this site - http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/random_motionMX.htm

Make a talking and moving cartoon. Use this site - http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/cartoon.htm

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